POSTAL Redux
Hooks you almost right away
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 3h it's 1 in 25 (4%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 81% of games we track.
- 30% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Fording the River Styx”: only 44% of starters get there.
- 84% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 8,450 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 3.8h for positive, 1.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (83.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Fording the River Styx Reach the half way mark of The Original or Excess Postage campaign. Most players quit here 44% −56
- The Final Descent Complete The Original or Excess Postage campaign. 30% −14
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (25)
story milestone ending side
- Descent into Madness Make your first kill. 100%
- Share The Pain When burning, set someone else on fire by running into them. 83%
- The Unlucky Chosen Ones Perform 13 executions. 49%
- Instruments Disorder Firebomb the Marching Band. 48%
- Combustible Circular Crates Blow up 50 barrels. 47%
- Rocket Power Kill four or more people with a single Rocket Launcher missile. 46%
- Fording the River Styx Reach the half way mark of The Original or Excess Postage campaign. 44%
- Games Are Bad! Wipe out the game protestors in Ghetto. 36%
- Left the Building Commit suicide. 36%
- No Time to Bleed Finish a level with less than 10 health. 36%
- The Final Descent Complete The Original or Excess Postage campaign. 30%
- Extinction Event Kill all Ostriches in The Farm. 29%
- Modern Day Noah Execute two of every hostile type. 20%
- To the Very End Watch the entire credit sequence. 20%
- A Better Mousetrap Kill three or more people with a single Mine explosive. 19%
- Smells Like Victory Kill 30 people with the Napalm Launcher. 15%
- Weapons of Mass Destruction Earn a kill with every weapon. 13%
- A Brush With Death Duck under 10 rockets. 13%
- Knee Deep in the Dead Complete The Original or Excess Postage campaign having left no survivors. 11%
- The Mad Four Complete every level in Co-op mode. 7.9%
- Total Destruction Complete all Rampage levels. 7.5%
- Misunderstood Savior Complete The Original or Excess Postage campaign having killed only hostiles. 6.3%
- Against Impossible Odds Complete the Excess Postage campaign in Nightmare difficulty. 6.3%
- Quick to the Slaughter Complete The Original campaign with a total play time of 30:00 or less. 5.6%
- Flawless Execution Perfect all Rampage levels. 4.6%